I’ve been a bit quiet on the home-front since Mary and Max. I have been plotting away in the shadows working on the preproduction for a new 13min short currently titled ‘Things you can’t unlearn.’ - A tale about a young guy who makes the right decision but only after it is too late.
I’ll be using this space to provide updates as they transpire, but am not going to give too much away!
Here you’ll find pictures of the characters and models as well as a few storyboards and other related fodder.

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

7/5/2012
Eyelid test.
I tried a method of eyelids shown to my by a friend Will Davy many years ago.
You get a plastic milk bottle, cut the sides so you have a bunch of flat plastic panels, heat it slowly over a gas flame until it goes clear, stretch it over a ball/eye on a stick and once it cools/hardens, you trim and paint to spec.
I haven't done any animation tests, but here are some pics.

cut out eyelids are tacky-waxed to dress pins in a block of the good stuff.

Painting them darker than the plasticine colour, so the contrast of the blink is stronger.

Maltesers! wet paint do not touch.

A stoner od a puppet with lids on place. (I'll try run a blink test and post it next week.)

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Residing in Brisbane, Australia, Jason Lynch is an Academy award winning Stop-motion Animator (Wallace and Gromit 2006)
With experience ranging from Feature Film, Short Film, TVC, TV series and teaching from across the world, Jason has a passion for all things stop-motion, with skills ranging from pre-vis, pre-prod (puppet and set build) through to Production, Animation, DOP & Direction and Edit. The majority of my experience is in plasticine owing to my work on 'Wallace and Gromit' and 'Mary and Max'. Jason also strong skills in 2d animation (drawn and Flash) as well as, Live action Film and Medical Documentary and illustration. Aside from animation Degree, He holds a Nursing degree and Certificate IV in adult training and assessment and teaches both Nursing and Animation in Brisbane.